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Forget about perfecting your CV and don’t worry about choosing the perfect tie
— if you want to do well in job interviews, just remember to fidget. If,
that is, you are a man.

Scientists at the University of Roehampton have found that men who repeatedly
touched their face, bit and licked their lips, yawned and scratched
themselves during an interview were more calm and made fewer mistakes. With
women, however, the opposite was true.

The research, published in the open-access journal PLOS
One, gave a mock job interview to 72 people. They were each asked to
make a presentation explaining